Improvement in lathing for walls and ceilings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

D. D. GARLAND, OF KEWAUNEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN LATHING FOR WALLS AND CEILINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4'3,0| S, dated June'7, 1864.

To all whom` it may concern:

Be it known that I, D. D. GARLAND, of Kewaunee, in the count-y ofKewaunee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Lathing for Receiving the Mortar to Form Walls andCeilings in Buildings; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, making a part ot' this specification, inwhich- Figure 1 is a face view of my invention; Fig. 2, a transversesection of the same, taken in the line a: x, Fig. 1.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

This invention consists in having'boards sawed from any suitable timberof a thickness about equal to that ot' ordinary laths, and having saidboards or pieces of the same slotted longitudinally nearly their wholelength, the spaces between the slots being about equal in width to anordinary lath, Ywhereby several advantages are obtained over theordinary laths, as hereint'ter set forth.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

The ordinary laths for plastering, as is well known, are sawed out indetached pieces of a.

suitable length and width and then nailed separately to the studs, witha space allowed between them for the mortar to pass through and form aclinch.77 The laths are nailed to the studs by the eye only, andconsequently the spaces between them will vary materially in Width, andin many cases they will be nailed to the studs at either too great adistance apart or too near together to admit of the mortar forming aperfect clinch. Considerable time is also expended in nailing the lathsto the studs and a comparatively large amount ot' nails required for thepurpose.

My invention fully obviates these objections. I saw from the timber orlog boards A ot a thickness about equal to that ot' the ordinary laths.vThese boards may be used entire if desiredthat is to say, not cut orsawed into pieces; but I prefer to eut them into pieces from sixteen(16) inches to that of an ordinary lath in length. These entire boardsor the pieces are then slotted longitudinally, as shown at a, the spacesb between the slots being equal in width to that ot' an ordinary lath,and the slots a being of uniform width. These slots a may all be cut bya machine, and a blank space, c, is left at each end ot each board orpiece A. These boards or pieces are nailed to the studs and covered withplaster in the same way as the ordinary laths.

It will of course be seen that the studs can be very rapidly covered bythe slotted boards or pieces A, and that a very stron g and durableceiling or wall is obtained thereby.

It will also be seen that less nails will be required in securing saidboards or pieces to the wall than is used with the ordinary laths, andalso that the slots a and spaces b between them will be ot' a uniformwidth throughout.

Having thus 'described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved lathing for walls and ceilings, constructed of boards orpieces sawed ot' a proper thickness from any suitable timber and slottedlongitudinally, substantially as herein shown and described.

Witnesses: D. l). GARLAND.

S. 1V ALKER, M. S. FINLEY.

